I found them on the counter. Mom and my sister have been eating them constantly. Must have been on sale or something. Simplified ingredient list:
Sugar, sugar, oats, sugar, rice, sugar, barley, sugar, oil, natural sugar, sugar, oil, sugar, soy, salt, milk, oil, cocoa, baking soda, sugar, sugar, rice bran, alchohol (spelled "tocopherols", which I keep reading as "Tophpherols") rosemary, and acid.
Oh, and no, they do not have a lot of fibre in them.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Materialism -- "It's just a spice."
There are a lot of things I should be doing right now. Storyboards (put a star by that one), homework, request sketches, journals left unfinished... housecleaning. But I feel like recalling something interesting from school the other day.
I take a Mi'kmaq Studies class. People have told me before that it's stupid, since it's taught by a Caucaison man (who is in the early-fatherhood stage and is quite adorkable about it) but I've found he's quite intellegible about the subject. The other day he was telling us about the first European-Native contact, and how everyone was all, "Wow, these dudes are weird." He mentioned that Columbus had convinced Queen Isabella that the trip around the world wouldn't be so long, and that he would surely find this new route to China so she could get her nutmeg.
At this point, someone in the class went, "Well, that's stupid. It's just a spice."
My Global Geography teacher is brilliant. He's retiring at the end of this term (which is a shame), but is insanely energetic for his age. He's also seems to have an extreme case of ADHD. But the way he teaches global economics and history have got me very interested in the subject. I'm guilty now of going to Chapters and buying books with such titles as "The Garden of Their Dreams: Desertification in Western Culture", "Ecoholic: Guide To The Most Economically Friendly Information, Products, and Services in Canada", and "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century" -- all of which have proven very interesting, if you like reading statistics. All the reading and thought I've done in accordance with these novels (and online sites, like the one I'm looking at now, since I also have a mild case of ADD and can't focus -- www.grist.org put out an article about how, while Mister Al Gore was trying yet again to get congress to focus on global warming, some idiot decided to debate whether or not Jacuzzis should be regulated... are you kidding?) have got me thinking about materialism and the things we take for granted, like toothpaste and furnature and female hygiene products (of which we each go though thousands of in a lifetime)... and money.
Money. It's just paper, metal, and plastic.
And the oh-so-valued nutmeg was "just a spice".
The Mi'kmaq people had a good thing going before Europeans said hello (or, more truthfully, "Hi, you're stupid, go get us some furs,"); all things were supposedly shared among the people. Like gentle communism, it sounded like. If a man were fishing and someone came along who needed food, well, that man would give up some fish, no questions asked. Europeans seem to have brought the concept of material wealth to the "New World", and as far as I can see it's all been downhill from there. We take paper and metal and plastic as things to fight over and kill over and battle for... it's a race to see who can gain the most, who can get there first. And wasn't the spice trade kind of the same way?
I take a Mi'kmaq Studies class. People have told me before that it's stupid, since it's taught by a Caucaison man (who is in the early-fatherhood stage and is quite adorkable about it) but I've found he's quite intellegible about the subject. The other day he was telling us about the first European-Native contact, and how everyone was all, "Wow, these dudes are weird." He mentioned that Columbus had convinced Queen Isabella that the trip around the world wouldn't be so long, and that he would surely find this new route to China so she could get her nutmeg.
At this point, someone in the class went, "Well, that's stupid. It's just a spice."
My Global Geography teacher is brilliant. He's retiring at the end of this term (which is a shame), but is insanely energetic for his age. He's also seems to have an extreme case of ADHD. But the way he teaches global economics and history have got me very interested in the subject. I'm guilty now of going to Chapters and buying books with such titles as "The Garden of Their Dreams: Desertification in Western Culture", "Ecoholic: Guide To The Most Economically Friendly Information, Products, and Services in Canada", and "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century" -- all of which have proven very interesting, if you like reading statistics. All the reading and thought I've done in accordance with these novels (and online sites, like the one I'm looking at now, since I also have a mild case of ADD and can't focus -- www.grist.org put out an article about how, while Mister Al Gore was trying yet again to get congress to focus on global warming, some idiot decided to debate whether or not Jacuzzis should be regulated... are you kidding?) have got me thinking about materialism and the things we take for granted, like toothpaste and furnature and female hygiene products (of which we each go though thousands of in a lifetime)... and money.
Money. It's just paper, metal, and plastic.
And the oh-so-valued nutmeg was "just a spice".
The Mi'kmaq people had a good thing going before Europeans said hello (or, more truthfully, "Hi, you're stupid, go get us some furs,"); all things were supposedly shared among the people. Like gentle communism, it sounded like. If a man were fishing and someone came along who needed food, well, that man would give up some fish, no questions asked. Europeans seem to have brought the concept of material wealth to the "New World", and as far as I can see it's all been downhill from there. We take paper and metal and plastic as things to fight over and kill over and battle for... it's a race to see who can gain the most, who can get there first. And wasn't the spice trade kind of the same way?
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